Near Tragedy Averted as Coach, Parents Knew CPR

By Matthai Kuruvila, San Francisco Chronicle

The El Cerrito High School boys basketball team was up by roughly 40 points late Tuesday, the game safely in hand, when coach Michael Booker heard his players yelling at him urgently.

"Coach! Coach! Coach!" they shouted.

When he looked, Booker saw that one of his players, who had been sitting on the bench after having played, was having a seizure. Over the next few minutes, the boy's pulse stopped. It happened just four days after a high school basketball player in nearby El Sobrante collapsed during a game and died.

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